From the paper with black stars in same pattern, I took a clear sheet of masking, draw the stars with a pencil to the mask, cut it out with a sharp X-Acto knive, put away the cut-out stars, and used the mask with the "starholes" at the 1/32 body in one piece. Painted with Faskolor pink fluet, backed up with faswhite, off with the mask, then yellow fluent faded on, then orange fluent to rest of body, backed up with faswhite between the lay of color, and was finished.

The cut-out stars put on the 1/24 Mercedes body in same pattern, same method of painting with the airbrush.

Remeber the use of a hair dryer between the layer of color to speed up the process - attention: not too close to the body it will melt down/being soft.

Just returned from 2. Danish Champs for Can Am cars - not very succesfull this time, but anyway I used a new body from my paintshop, Lola T70 on a NWP2 chassis from Neckscheese, and the colours could be seen at all parts of the track.

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I'm curious about the "star car". Obviously, you had the starts and big stripe masked off when spraying the white. How did the light purple shading come to be? Did you just spray over onto the white some, and the darker purple just shows through the white? I'd like to see the underside of that car.

Richard L. Hofer

Remember, two wrongs don't make a right... but three lefts do! Only you're a block over and a block behind.

Thanks Jan for your painting details. It doesn't sound as if any of us in the US guessed all the steps you used. With a quick look on the internet, it doesn't appear the Vallejo brand of acrylics you used are available in the US, or at least not yet.